All perfection is melancholy.

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.

One only says it is one's duty when one has something disagreeable to do.

The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended.

As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.

It is so seldom in this world that things come just when they are wanted.

Laughing is not the first expression of joy. ... A person laughs in idleness, for fun, not for joy. Joy has nothing, nothing but the old way of tears.

Even in misery we love to be foremost, to have the bitter in our cup acknowledged as more bitter than that of others.

Good works may only be beautiful sins, if they are not done in a true spirit.

there are some people who never learn; indeed, few people learn by experience, so far as I have ever seen.

Things are just things. They can't bring back the dead. it just makes me feel better.

He's the only stable thing in the swirling chaos.

There are so many worlds and I have not yet conquered even one.

I used to - my earliest memory of waking up with a melody in my head was, you know, 8, 9, 10. I've always heard kind of melodies in my head.

I think my stubbornness has served me well. I just knew at an early age what I wanted to do and I was determined to be able to make it happen, no matter how long it took.

Holy living is essential preparation for prayer.

I took cooking classes when I was younger; girls weren't interested in me, and I thought I may be alone for the rest of my life.

I owe my life to blood donors. They went out, rolled up a sleeve and gave me another chance at life.

Nature, philosophy and social issues are the three things that always occupy my mind. You do not have any power over others but can only change yourself.

Wherever you go, you will always bear yourself about with you, and so you will always find yourself.